כֹּהֵן
priest
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H3548
Strong's Hebrew
kôhên
Transliteration
/ko-hane'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
749
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
priest, principal officer or chief ruler
- priest-king (Melchizedek, Messiah)
- pagan priests
- priests of Jehovah
- Levitical priests
- Zadokite priests
- Aaronic priests
- the high priest
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 422 times (56%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 273 times (36%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 37 times (5%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 17 times (2%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 749 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 3 of 4 — showing verses 401–600 of 652 distinct verses where H3548 appears, across 29 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 17 verses
- 1 Chronicles 24:6 הַ/כֹּהֵ֗ן לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c ms prep det + n c mp Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 24:31 לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים prep det + n c mp These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
- 1 Chronicles 27:5 הַ/כֹּהֵ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 28:13 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Yahweh;
- 1 Chronicles 28:21 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with you in all manner of work every willing man who has skill, for any manner of service: also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.
- 1 Chronicles 29:22 לְ/כֹהֵֽן prep + n c ms and ate and drink before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.
2 Chronicles 72 verses
- 2 Chronicles 4:6 לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים prep det + n c mp He made also ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
- 2 Chronicles 4:9 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
- 2 Chronicles 5:5 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp and they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the priests the Levites bring up.
- 2 Chronicles 5:7 הַ֠/כֹּהֲנִים ptcl def.art + n c mp The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
- 2 Chronicles 5:11 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their divisions;
- 2 Chronicles 5:12 כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ n c mp also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;)
- 2 Chronicles 5:14 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֛ים ptcl def.art + n c mp so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 6:41 כֹּהֲנֶ֜י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting-place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.
- 2 Chronicles 7:2 הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp The priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh's house.
- 2 Chronicles 7:6 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֞ים וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp The priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, (for his loving kindness endures for ever), when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
- 2 Chronicles 8:14 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֜ים הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
- 2 Chronicles 8:15 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֧ים ptcl def.art + n c mp They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
- 2 Chronicles 11:13 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.
- 2 Chronicles 11:15 כֹּֽהֲנִ֔ים n c mp and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.
- 2 Chronicles 13:9 כֹּהֲנֵ֣י כֹּהֲנִים֙ כֹהֵ֖ן n c mp cs n c mp n c ms Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [those who are] no gods.
- 2 Chronicles 13:10 וְ/כֹ֨הֲנִ֜ים conj + n c mp But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and [we have] priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:
- 2 Chronicles 13:12 וְ/כֹהֲנָ֛י/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don't you fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.
- 2 Chronicles 13:14 וְ/הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
- 2 Chronicles 15:3 כֹּהֵ֥ן n c ms Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
- 2 Chronicles 17:8 הַ/כֹּהֲנִֽים ptcl def.art + n c mp and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
- 2 Chronicles 19:8 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֗ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 19:11 כֹהֵן֩ n c ms cs Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and Yahweh be with the good.
- 2 Chronicles 22:11 הַ/כֹּהֵ֜ן ptcl def.art + n c ms But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn't kill him.
- 2 Chronicles 23:4 לַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ prep det + n c mp This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;
- 2 Chronicles 23:6 הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp But let none come into the house of Yahweh, save the priests, and those who minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the charge of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 23:8 הַ/כֹּהֵן֒ הַ/כֹּהֵ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn't dismiss the shift.
- 2 Chronicles 23:9 הַ/כֹּהֵ֜ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 23:14 הַ/כֹּהֵ֜ן הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Don't kill her in the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 23:17 כֹּהֵ֣ן n c ms cs All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
- 2 Chronicles 23:18 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.
- 2 Chronicles 24:2 הַ/כֹּהֵֽן ptcl def.art + n c ms Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
- 2 Chronicles 24:5 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter. However the Levites didn't hurry.
- 2 Chronicles 24:11 כֹּהֵ֣ן n c ms cs It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
- 2 Chronicles 24:20 הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן ptcl def.art + n c ms The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why disobey you the commandments of Yahweh, so that you can't prosper? because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.
- 2 Chronicles 24:25 הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן ptcl def.art + n c ms When they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they didn't bury him in the tombs of the kings.
- 2 Chronicles 26:17 הַ/כֹּהֵ֑ן כֹּהֲנִ֧ים ptcl def.art + n c ms n c mp Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men:
- 2 Chronicles 26:18 לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֧ים prep det + n c mp and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahweh God.
- 2 Chronicles 26:19 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֗ים הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense.
- 2 Chronicles 26:20 כֹהֵ֨ן הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֗ים n c ms cs ptcl def.art + n c mp Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.
- 2 Chronicles 29:4 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,
- 2 Chronicles 29:16 הַ֠/כֹּהֲנִים ptcl def.art + n c mp The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
- 2 Chronicles 29:21 הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 29:22 הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
- 2 Chronicles 29:24 הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp and the priests killed them, and they made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded [that] the burnt offering and the sin-offering [should be made] for all Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:26 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
- 2 Chronicles 29:34 הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִ֔ים מֵֽ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִֽים ptcl def.art + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp prep + ptcl def.art + n c mp But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
- 2 Chronicles 30:3 הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 30:15 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֨ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 30:16 הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.
- 2 Chronicles 30:21 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֛ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, [singing] with loud instruments to Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 30:24 כֹהֲנִ֖ים n c mp For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
- 2 Chronicles 30:25 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
- 2 Chronicles 30:27 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים לַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp prep det + n c mp Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 31:4 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 31:9 הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִ֛ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 31:10 הַ/כֹּהֵ֛ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
- 2 Chronicles 31:15 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, as well to the great as to the small:
- 2 Chronicles 31:17 הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp and those who were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their fathers' houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions;
- 2 Chronicles 31:19 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֜ים בַּ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp prep det + n c mp Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.
- 2 Chronicles 34:5 כֹּֽהֲנִ֔ים n c mp He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34:9 הַ/כֹּהֵ֣ן ptcl def.art + n c ms They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34:14 הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן ptcl def.art + n c ms When they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of Yahweh [given] by Moses.
- 2 Chronicles 34:18 הַ/כֹּהֵ֑ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book. Shaphan read therein before the king.
- 2 Chronicles 34:30 וְ/הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 35:2 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 35:8 לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֥ים לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֞ים prep det + n c mp prep det + n c mp His princes gave for a freewill-offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen.
- 2 Chronicles 35:10 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֧ים ptcl def.art + n c mp So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
- 2 Chronicles 35:11 הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
- 2 Chronicles 35:14 וְ/לַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ וְ/לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים conj + prep det + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp conj + prep det + n c mp Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
- 2 Chronicles 35:18 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֨ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Ezra 25 verses
- Ezra 1:5 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp Then rose up the heads of fathers' [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 2:36 הַֽ/כֹּהֲנִ֑ים ptcl def.art + n c mp The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
- Ezra 2:61 הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
- Ezra 2:63 כֹּהֵ֖ן n c ms The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
- Ezra 2:69 כֹּהֲנִ֖ים n c mp they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
- Ezra 2:70 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
- Ezra 3:2 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
- Ezra 3:8 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh.
- Ezra 3:10 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֨ים ptcl def.art + n c mp When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, after the order of David king of Israel.
- Ezra 3:12 מֵ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים prep + ptcl def.art + n c mp But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
- Ezra 6:20 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֧ים הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.
- Ezra 7:5 הַ/כֹּהֵ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest;
- Ezra 7:7 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֨ים ptcl def.art + n c mp There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
- Ezra 7:11 הַ/כֹּהֵ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes to Israel:
- Ezra 8:15 וּ/בַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים conj + prep det + n c mp I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
- Ezra 8:24 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
- Ezra 8:29 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֧ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Watch you, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Yahweh.
- Ezra 8:30 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
- Ezra 8:33 הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן ptcl def.art + n c ms On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;
- Ezra 9:1 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
- Ezra 9:7 כֹהֲנֵ֜י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
- Ezra 10:5 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֨ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
- Ezra 10:10 הַ/כֹּהֵן֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
- Ezra 10:16 הַ/כֹּהֵ֜ן ptcl def.art + n c ms The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
- Ezra 10:18 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Nehemiah 42 verses
- Nehemiah 2:16 וְ/לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֜ים conj + prep det + n c mp The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.
- Nehemiah 3:1 הַ/כֹּהֵ֨ן הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c mp Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.
- Nehemiah 3:20 הַ/כֹּהֵ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning [of the wall] to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
- Nehemiah 3:22 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp After him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain.
- Nehemiah 3:28 הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Above the horse gate repaired the priests, everyone over against his own house.
- Nehemiah 5:12 הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
- Nehemiah 7:39 הַֽ/כֹּהֲנִ֑ים ptcl def.art + n c mp The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
- Nehemiah 7:63 הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
- Nehemiah 7:65 הַ/כֹּהֵ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
- Nehemiah 7:70 כֹּֽהֲנִ֔ים n c mp Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments.
- Nehemiah 7:72 כֹּֽהֲנִ֖ים n c mp That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
- Nehemiah 7:73 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
- Nehemiah 8:2 הַ֠/כֹּהֵן ptcl def.art + n c ms Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
- Nehemiah 8:9 הַ/כֹּהֵ֣ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to Yahweh your God; don't mourn, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
- Nehemiah 8:13 הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp On the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' [houses] of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of the law.
- Nehemiah 9:32 וּ/לְ/כֹהֲנֵ֛י/נוּ conj + prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
- Nehemiah 9:34 כֹּהֲנֵ֣י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you did testify against them.
- Nehemiah 9:38 כֹּהֲנֵֽי/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it.
- Nehemiah 10:8 הַ/כֹּהֲנִֽים ptcl def.art + n c mp Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.
- Nehemiah 10:28 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge, and understanding;
- Nehemiah 10:34 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law;
- Nehemiah 10:36 לַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים prep det + n c mp also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;
- Nehemiah 10:37 לַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ prep det + n c mp and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
- Nehemiah 10:38 הַ/כֹּהֵ֧ן ptcl def.art + n c ms The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure-house.
- Nehemiah 10:39 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
- Nehemiah 11:3 הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.
- Nehemiah 11:10 הַֽ/כֹּהֲנִ֑ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,
- Nehemiah 11:20 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c mp The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.
- Nehemiah 12:1 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
- Nehemiah 12:7 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֛ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.
- Nehemiah 12:12 כֹהֲנִ֖ים n c mp In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' [houses]: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
- Nehemiah 12:22 וְ/הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers' [houses]; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
- Nehemiah 12:26 הַ/כֹּהֵ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest the scribe.
- Nehemiah 12:30 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
- Nehemiah 12:35 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;
- Nehemiah 12:41 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֡ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
- Nehemiah 12:44 לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֥ים prep det + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp On that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the heave-offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.
- Nehemiah 13:4 הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
- Nehemiah 13:5 הַ/כֹּהֲנִֽים ptcl def.art + n c mp had prepared for him a great chamber, where before they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.
- Nehemiah 13:13 הַ/כֹּהֵ֜ן ptcl def.art + n c ms I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.
- Nehemiah 13:28 הַ/כֹּהֵ֣ן ptcl def.art + n c ms One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
- Nehemiah 13:30 לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֥ים prep det + n c mp Thus cleansed I them from all foreigners, and appointed charges for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;
Job 1 verse
Psalms 5 verses
- Psalms 78:64 כֹּ֭הֲנָי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows couldn't weep.
- Psalms 99:6 בְּֽ/כֹהֲנָ֗י/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
- Psalms 110:4 כֹהֵ֥ן n c ms Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."
- Psalms 132:9 כֹּהֲנֶ֥י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!"
- Psalms 132:16 וְֽ֭/כֹהֲנֶי/הָ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.
Isaiah 6 verses
- Isaiah 8:2 הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן ptcl def.art + n c ms and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
- Isaiah 24:2 כַּ/כֹּהֵ֔ן prep det + n c ms It shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
- Isaiah 28:7 כֹּהֵ֣ן n c ms Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
- Isaiah 37:2 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
- Isaiah 61:6 כֹּהֲנֵ֤י n c mp cs But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men shall call you the ministers of our God: you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.
- Isaiah 66:21 לַ/כֹּהֲנִ֥ים prep det + n c mp Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites, says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 38 verses
- Jeremiah 1:1 הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
- Jeremiah 1:18 לְ/כֹהֲנֶ֖י/הָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land.
- Jeremiah 2:8 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c mp The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
- Jeremiah 2:26 וְ/כֹהֲנֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
- Jeremiah 4:9 הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp It shall happen at that day, says Yahweh, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
- Jeremiah 5:31 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?
- Jeremiah 6:13 כֹּהֵ֔ן n c ms For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
- Jeremiah 8:1 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֜ים ptcl def.art + n c mp At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
- Jeremiah 8:10 כֹּהֵ֔ן n c ms Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.
- Jeremiah 13:13 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
- Jeremiah 14:18 כֹּהֵ֛ן n c ms If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
- Jeremiah 18:18 מִ/כֹּהֵ֗ן prep + n c ms Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
- Jeremiah 19:1 הַ/כֹּהֲנִֽים ptcl def.art + n c mp Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
- Jeremiah 20:1 הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
- Jeremiah 21:1 הַ/כֹּהֵ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
- Jeremiah 23:11 כֹּהֵ֖ן n c ms for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 23:33 כֹהֵן֙ n c ms When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 23:34 וְ/הַ/כֹּהֵן֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house.
- Jeremiah 26:7 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֥ים ptcl def.art + n c mp The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 26:8 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֧ים ptcl def.art + n c mp It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely die.
- Jeremiah 26:11 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.
- Jeremiah 26:16 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Then said the princes and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.
- Jeremiah 27:16 הַ/כֹּהֲנִים֩ ptcl def.art + n c mp Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
- Jeremiah 28:1 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֛ים ptcl def.art + n c mp It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
- Jeremiah 28:5 הַ/כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of Yahweh,
- Jeremiah 29:1 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,
- Jeremiah 29:25 הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c mp Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
- Jeremiah 29:26 כֹהֵ֗ן הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
- Jeremiah 29:29 הַ/כֹּהֵ֖ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
- Jeremiah 31:14 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 32:32 כֹּהֲנֵי/הֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 33:18 וְ/לַ/כֹּהֲנִים֙ conj + prep det + n c mp neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
- Jeremiah 33:21 הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
- Jeremiah 34:19 וְ/הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;
- Jeremiah 37:3 הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן ptcl def.art + n c ms Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.
- Jeremiah 48:7 כֹּהֲנָ֥י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
- Jeremiah 49:3 כֹּהֲנָ֥י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
- Jeremiah 52:24 כֹּהֵ֣ן כֹּהֵ֣ן n c ms cs n c ms cs The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
Lamentations 6 verses
- Lamentations 1:4 כֹּהֲנֶ֖י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
- Lamentations 1:19 כֹּהֲנַ֥/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
- Lamentations 2:6 וְ/כֹהֵֽן conj + n c ms He has violently taken away his tent, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
- Lamentations 2:20 כֹּהֵ֥ן n c ms Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 4:13 כֹּהֲנֶ֑י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
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כהן — transliterated kôhên — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “priest.” The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. Spanning 652 verses in 29 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 14:18. Sharing its root, it stands alongside כהן, כהנה and כהן. See the sense tree, 652-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
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Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
Strong's · 1890
chief ruler
Modern gloss
priest
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H3548 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 652
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 652 distinct verses.
- 29 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 29 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #67
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 67 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 153 verses 23%
- 2 Chronicles 72 verses 11%
- Numbers 62 verses 10%
By section of the Old Testament
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Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 652 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 245 verses · 38%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 239 verses · 37%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 168 verses · 26%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Priest 392×, Priests 243×, Priest's 7×
- American Standard Version: Priest 383×, Priests 232×, Were priests 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Priest 380×, Priests 255×, Way the priest 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Priest 410×, Priests 271×, The 30×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3548 across 750 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 58 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3548 across 750 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 83 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3548 across 725 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 37 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 25 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3548 across 768 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
11 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 11 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. priest-king: e.g. Melchizedek Gn 14:18 (E?), cf. ψ 110:4 (the Messianic priest-King like Melchizedek); Zc 6:13 (Messianic priest and king); Israel מַמְלֶכֶת כֹּהֲנִים Ex 19:6 (E) a kingdom of priests (priests and kings at once in their relation to the nations); cf. Is 61:6 (of Israel ministering as a priest); or a chieftain (exercising priestly functions) כֹּהֵן מִדְיָן Ex 2:16; 3:1; 18:1 (all JE); so also probably the sons of David 2 S 8:18, his grandson 1 K 4:5; and Ira the Jairite 2 S 20:26, who as princes performed priestly functions. With these we may class the כהנים Ex 19:22, 24 (J). e.g. Genesis 14:18
- 2. priests of other religions than י׳’s: Potiphera כ׳ אֹן Gn 41:45, 50 (E), 46:20 (P); Egyptian כהנים Gn 47:22(×2), 26 (J); כ׳ דָגוֹן 1 S 5:5; Philistine כהנים וקסמים 1 S 6:2; כֹּהֲנָיו his priests: e.g. of Baal 2 K 10:19 = of Ahab 2 K 10:11; of Chemosh Je 48:7; of Malcam Je 49:3; Mattan was כ׳ הבעל 2 K 11:18 = 2 Ch 23:17; הכמרים עם הכהנים Zp 1:4; Josiah burned the bones of the priests of the Baalim and Asherim 2 Ch 34:5. e.g. Genesis 41:45
- 3. priests of special orders in Israel:
- a. Micah in the hill-country of Ephraim consecrated his own son וַיְהִי־לוֹ לְכֹהֵן Ju 17:5; but so soon as he could secure Jonathan ben Gershom, a descendant of Moses (see VB Ju 18:30), he consecrated him, היה ל׳ לכהן Ju 17:10, 12, 13; 18:4, 19; הַכֹּהֵן v 6, 17, 18, 20, 24, 27. He was captured by the Danites, and he and his line became priests at Dan until the Exile, v 19(×2), 30. e.g. Judges 17:5
- b. Jeroboam עשׂה כהנים 1 K 12:31 of those not מבני לוי, as כ׳ (הַ)בָּמוֹת priests of (the) high places 1 K 12:32; 13:2, 33(×2) = כ׳ לבמות 2 Ch 11:15; Amaziah (of this class) was כ׳ בית־אל Am 7:10; v. also 2 Ch 13:9; called by Chr כ׳ לְלֹא אלהים v 9; yet Hosea rebukes them as priests of י׳ Ho 4:4, 9; 5:1; 6:9; at the Exile they were deported by the Assyrians 2 K 17:27, 28. e.g. 1 Kings 12:31
- c. the people imported into Samaria made some of themselves כ׳ במות to worship י׳ the God of the land 2 K 17:32. e.g. 2 Kings 17:32
- 4. priests in Israel הכהנים who bore the ark and the trumpets Jos 3:13, 14, 15, 17; 4:3, 9, 10, 17, 18(×2); 6:4(×2), 6(×2), 8, 9, 12, 13, 16 (all JE), 1 K 8:3, 6, 10, 11; Eli was הכהן 1 S 1:9; 2:11; כ׳ יהוה 14:3; and his sons כ׳ ליהוה 1 S 1:3; a מִשְׁפַּט הַכֹּהֲנִים 1 S 2:13 mentions the ministering priest הכהן and the נַעַר הַכּ׳ 1 S 2:13, 14, 15(×2), Ahijah was הַכּ׳ in time of Saul 1 S 14:19(×2); 36; Abimelech הַכּ׳ at Nob, a priestly centre, 1 S 21:2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10; 22:11; where were many כֹּהֲנֵי י׳ 1 S 22:17(×2), 21, all slain by Saul except Abiathar son of Ahimelech 1 S 22:11, 18(×2), 19, who became הַכּ׳ 1 S 23:9; 30:7 1 K 1:7, 19, 25, 42; 2:22, 26; Zadok later was הַכּ׳ 2 S 15:27 1 K 1:8, 26, 32, 34, 38, 39, 44, 45; 2:35; 3:2 1 Ch 16:39; 24:6: so that the two were (ה)כהנים 2 S 8:17 = 1 Ch 18:16 (read וְאֶבְיָתָר בֶּן־אח׳ 2 S 8:17 𝔖 We Dr, and correct 1 Ch 18:16 accordingly) 2 S 15:35(×2); 17:15; 19:12; 20:25 1 K 4:4; Sol. removed Abiathar 1 K 2:27 and Zadok was anointed לְכֹהֵן according to 1 Ch 29:22; cf. prediction of rejection of house of Eli and selection of כ׳ נֶאֱמָן 1 S 2:28, 35; Jehoiada הַכּ׳ led the revolution against Athaliah 2 K 11:9(×2), 10, 15(×2), 18; 12:3, 8, 10 = 2 Ch 22:11; 23:8(×2), 9, 14(×2); 24:2, 20, 25, perhaps also Je 29:26; הנהנים sustaining him in his reforms 2 K 12:5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17; Uriah was הַכּ׳ in the reign of Ahaz 2 K 16:10, 11(×2), 15, 16 Is 8:2; Hilkiah of Josiah 2 K 22:10, 12, 14; 23:24 2 Ch 34:14, 18. Other individual priests are named, e.g.: Pashhur of Jehoiachin Je 20:1; Zephaniah of Zedekiah Je 21:1; 29:25, 26, 29; 37:3; הַכּ׳ is Ezekiel’s title Ez 1:3. Priests are classed with officials of state: prophets and priests 2 K 23:2 Is 28:7 Je 5:31; 6:13; 8:10; 14:18; 23:11, 33, 34; 26:7, 8, 11, 16; 29:1; La 2:20; 4:13; priests and elders La 1:19; 4:16; king and priest La 2:6; kings, priests, and prophets Je 13:13; kings, princes, and priests Je 1:18; princes, eunuchs, and priests Je 34:19; priest, sage, and prophet Je 18:18; chiefs, priests, and prophets Mi 3:11; prophets, priests, and elders Ez 7:26; kings, princes, priests, and prophets Je 2:26; 4:9; 8:1; 32:32; princes, judges, prophets, and priests Zp 3:4; seeming to exclude any other officials. Apparently in the same generic sense הכהנים Je 1:1; 2:8; 27:16; 28:1, 5; 29:25; 31:14; כַּכֹּהֵן Is 24:2; כהנים Jb 12:19; כהניה La 1:4 Ez 22:26; כהניו ψ 78:64. Moses and Aaron among his priests ψ 99:6 includes Moses (against P). Zion’s priests clothed with righteousness and salvation ψ 132:9, 16 = 2 Ch 6:41, prob. here also. e.g. Joshua 3:13
- 5. Levitical priests הַכֹּהֲנִים הַלְוִיִּם Dt 17:9, 18; 18:1; 24:8; 27:9; Jos 3:3; 8:33 (all D), Je 33:18 (inverted), v 21 (neither in 𝔊), 2 Ch 5:5 (= הַכּ׳ וְהַלּ׳ 1 K 8:4: Chronicler retains original Deuteronomic reading), Ez 43:19; 44:15 (cf. 6); הַכּ׳ בְנֵי לֵוִי Dt 21:5; 31:9; לקח לכ׳ לל׳ Is 66:21 take for priests, for Levites (of the nations in Messianic age). Doubtless of same class are: הַכֹּהֲנִים Dt 18:3; 19:17; Jos 3:6, 8; 4:11 (D); and הַכֹּהֵן, the priest officiating on a partic. occasion Dt 18:3; 20:2; or holding a partic. dignity 17:12; 26:3, 4. The כהנים of the other cities of Judah, כ׳ הבמות, who were not allowed to minister in Jerusalem 2 K 23:8(×2), 9, 20, may be an attempt to enforce an exclusion from the priesthood of all but Levitical priests. e.g. Deuteronomy 17:9
- 6. Zadokite priests: Ezekiel distinguishes among הכהנים הלוים those of the seed of Zadok, בְּנֵי צָדוֹק; all but the latter excluded by him from priesthood 40:46; 43:19; 44:15; 48:11; the priests of his code being all Zadokites 40:45, 46; 42:13, 14; 43:24, 27; 44:21, 22, 30(×2), 31; 45:4, 19; 46:2, 19, 20; 48:10, 13. e.g. Ezekiel 40:46
- 7. Aaronic priests. In H. it is taken for granted that a priest is of the seed of Aaron; the pl. is never used; כֹּהֵן is used for any priest Lv 21:9; 22:10, 11, 12, 13; הַכֹּהֵן for Aaron Lv 21:21, and for the official priest (acting for the priesthood, almost collective) Lv 17:5, 6; 22:14; 23:10, 11, 20(×2); 27:8(×3), 11, 12(×2), 14(×2), 18, 21, 23. The priests of P are בְּנֵי אַהֲרֹן Lv 1:5, 8, 11; 2:2; 3:2; 21:1 Nu 3:3; 10:8 Jos 21:19; so in Chronicles 2 Ch 13:9, 10; 26:18; 29:21; 31:19; 35:14(×2); הַכֹּהֵן is used of Aaron 22 times, Eleazar 29 times, Phinehas Jos 22:30 and elsewhere; 180 times of ministering priests, or generic of the priests; הכהנים Lv 6:22; 7:6; 13:2; 16:33 Jos 4:16; כהן Lv 6:16. Chronicles distinguishes הַכֹּהֲנִים וְהַלְוִיִּם 1 Ch 13:2; 15:11, 14; 23:2; 24:6, 31; 28:13, 21 2 Ch 8:15; 11:13; 13:9, 10; 23:4; 24:5; 29:4; 30:15, 25; 31:2(×2), 4, 9; 34:30; 35:8, 18 (the variants without וְ 2 Ch 23:18; 30:27 are due to copyists’ errors). Ezr 1:5; 2:70; 3:8, 12; 6:20; 7:7; 8:29, 30; 9:1 Ne 7:72; 8:13; 11:3; 12:1, 30, 44(×2); 13:30; הלוים והכהנים 2 Ch 19:8; 30:21; priests, Levites, and others 1 Ch 9:2 Ezr 10:5 Ne 10:1, 29, 35; 11:20; בְּנֵי לֵוִי antith. to הַכּ׳ Ezr 8:15; הכהן בן אהרן עם הלוים Ne 10:39; (ה)כהנים in Chr 67 times has the same reference, as also כֹּהֲנֵינוּ Ezr 9:7 Ne 9:32, 34; כֹּהֵן Ezr 2:63 = Ne 7:65; כ׳ ליהוה 2 Ch 26:17; כהניו His (God’s) priests 2 Ch 13:12; כ׳ מוֹרֶה teaching priest 2 Ch 15:3; הַכֹּהֵן is used of Jehoiada in time of David 1 Ch 27:5, and Azariah in the reign of Uzziah 2 Ch 26:17. In the literature of the restoration הַכֹּהֵן is used of Ezra, Ezr 7:11; 10:10, 16 Ne 8:2, 9; 12:26; Uriah Ezr 8:33; Eliashib Ne 13:4; Shelemiah Ne 13:13; הכהנים Jo 1:9, 13; 2:17 Hg 2:11, 12, 13 Zc 7:5 Mal 1:6; 2:1; priests and prophets Zc 7:3; כהן Mal 2:7. e.g. Leviticus 21:9
- 8. the high priest: הַכֹּהֵן is frequently used (see 4) to designate the priest who was at the head of priestly affairs. The adj. הַגָּדוֹל first appears of Jehoiada 2 K 12:11, then of Hilkiah 2 K 22:4, 8; 23:4; 2 Ch 34:9; after the exile, of Joshua Hg 1:1, 12, 14; 2:2, 4 Zc 3:1, 8; 6:11, and Eliashib Ne 3:1, 20; 13:28. But P uses it of Aaron and his eldest descendants who are anointed with holy oil Lv 21:10 (H; הכ׳ הַגָּדוֹל מֶאֶהָיו), Nu 35:25, 28(×2) Jos 20:6, and so הַכּ׳ הַמָּשִׁיהַ Lv 4:3, 5, 16; 6:15, cf. 16:32. כ׳ הָרֹאשׁ is used of Seraiah 2 K 25:18 = Je 52:24; and, in Chronicler, of Amariah 2 Ch 19:11, Jehoiada 2 Ch 24:11, Azariah, 2 Ch 26:20; 31:10; of Aaron Ezr 7:5. (We also supposes הרואה in 2 S 15:27 to be a corruption of הראשׁ, which he regards as postexilic insertion. The text is corrupt [see DrSm. l.c.]; but this correction is improbable. Lists of high priests occur 1 Ch 5:30–41; 6:35–38.) A priest of second rank (כֹּהֵן (ה)מִשְׁנֶה) appears in 2 K 23:4 (cstr. pl. incorrect), 25:18 = Je 52:24; זִקְנֵי הַכּ׳ 2 K 19:2 = Is 37:2, Je 19:1; שָׂרֵי הַכּ׳ 2 Ch 36:14 Ezr 8:24, 29; 10:5; רָאשֵׁי הַכּ׳ Ne 12:7. e.g. 2 Kings 12:11
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. priest (NH כֹּהֵן; Aramaic כָּהֵין, כַּהֲנָא ܟܳܗܶܢ, ܟܳܗܢܳܐ; Ethiopic ካህን, all id.; on Ph. and Arabic v. supr.);—כ׳ Gn 14:18 + 439 times; pl. כֹּהֲנִים Ex 19:6 + 272 times; cstr. כֹּהֲנֵי 1 S 5:5 + 13 times; sf. כֹּהֲנַי La 1:19 + 22 times; sfs.—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כהן (kâhan) (H3547) — to serve as priest.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כֹּהֵן
- , v. כּוּן; cmp. b. h. כַּן) [standing, stationed,] officer, esp. priest. Yoma 6ᵃ, a. fr. כ׳ גדול (abbr. כ"ג) high priest, כ׳ הדיוט ordinary priest. Meg. I, 9 כ׳ משוח an anointed high priest, contrad. to מרובה בגדים a high priest distinguished only by his robes (but not anointed, as in the days of the Second Temple). Ib. כ׳ משמש officiating highpriest, כ׳ שעבר a substitute of the high priest no longer required, ex-substitute. Hor. III, 8 ממזר … קודם לכ"ג ע"ה a bastard who is a scholar has the precedence of an ignorant high priest; a. v. fr.—Pl. כֹּהֲנִים. Yeb. 86ᵇ, a. e. בכ"ד מקומות נקראו הכ׳ וכ in twenty four Biblical passages the priests are designated as Levites; a. v. fr.—תּוֹרַת כֹּהֲנִים (abbr. ת"כ) Torath Kohănim, a) name of the third book of Moses, Leviticus. Kidd. 33ᵃ. Lev. R. s. 7 מפני מה … בת"כ why do we, in teaching children, commence with Leviticus? a. e.—b) name of an halachic commentary to Leviticus, also named Sifra. Yeb. 72ᵇ; a. fr.—Fem. כֹּהֶנֶת, כּוֹהֶ׳ a priest’s daughter or wife. Ḥull. 131ᵇ, sq.—Keth. IV, 8 ובכ׳ and in the case of a priest’s wife. Ib. VII, 1, sq. (70ᵃ) ובכ׳ Mish. a. Y. ed. (Bab. ed. ובכהן). Ib. 71ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. כֹּהֲנוֹת, כּוֹהֲ׳. Ber. 44ᵃ. Yeb. III, 10 אם היו כ׳ (Y. ed. כוה׳) if they are daughters of priests; a. e.
כָּהַן
- , (b. h.), Nithpa. נִתְכַּהֵן (denom. of כֹּהֵן) to be appointed priest, to act as priest. Zeb. 101ᵇ לא נ׳ פנחס וכ׳ Phineas was not appointed high priest until &c. Ib. 102ᵃ לא נ׳ משה וכ׳ Moses acted as priest only during &c.
כָּהֵן
- Targ. Jer. XIV, 18. Targ. Mal. II, 7. Targ. Lev. I, 7; a. v. fr.—Snh. 110ᵃ, a. fr. כ׳ רבא high priest. Ḥull. 49ᵃ ישמעאל כ׳ מסייע כהני Ishmael, being a priest, favors the priests. Gitt. 59ᵇ קרי בכ׳ read from the Torah in the priest’s place, i.e. was called up the first; Meg. 22ᵃ Ms. O. (ed. בכהני pl.); a. fr.—Pl. כַּהֲנִין, כַּהֲנַיָּא, כַּהֲנֵי. Targ. Ex. XIX, 6. Targ. O. Lev. I, 5; a. fr.—Gitt. l. c. כ׳ חשיבי דא"י highly esteemed Palestinean priests; a. fr.—Fem. (כֹּהֶנֶת) כַּהַנְתָּא. Ḥull. 131ᵇ … יהיב לכ׳ gave priestly gifts to a priest’s daughter (married to an Israelite). Pes. 49ᵃ נסיב כ׳ married a priest’s daughter.—Pl. כַּהֲנָתָא. Ber. 44ᵃ
כָּהֵן ²
- (or כֹּהֵן), כַּהֲנָא II pr. n. m. Kahen, Kahăna, name of several Amoraim. Y. Ber. III, 6ᵃ, a. fr. ר׳ כהן.—B. Kam. 117ᵃ. Y. R. Hash. IV, beg. 59ᵇ; a. fr.—Erub. 8ᵇ רב כ׳ רביה דרב (v., however, Ms. M. a. Rabb. D. S. a. l. notes); a. fr.—v. Fr. M’bo, p. 109ᵇ, sq.
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The 161 distinct written forms H3548 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 101 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 595 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 652 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 14:18
- Exodus 2:16
- Leviticus 1:5
- Numbers 3:3
- Deuteronomy 17:9
- Joshua 3:3
- Judges 17:5
- 1 Samuel 1:3
- 2 Samuel 8:17
- 1 Kings 1:7
- 2 Kings 10:11
- 1 Chronicles 9:2
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
